Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Virginia Gamba unveiled the Secretary-General’s latest annual report, for 2022, which showed there were 27,180 grave violations overall, an increase from the previous year. The recorded violations only refer to verified information, with the likely toll much higher, and cover four categories: recruitment and use of children into…
This summer will be “the first in more than three years that many of us will enjoy without the looming threat of COVID-19”, but the life-threatening virus has not gone away completely, said WHO’s regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, told reporters at a virtual press conference from Copenhagen. Each week, the coronavirus causes at least…
“The choice is clear,” said Tor Wennesland, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO). “Either continue along the downward spiral of violence and provocations leading to a political vacuum or turn towards constructive dialogue linked to concrete actions that can create hope and a political horizon.” ‘Alarming spike’ Urging Israeli and Palestinian…
“The effects of climate change are becoming more severe, and the number of people displaced across international borders is rapidly increasing,” said Ian Fry, independent human rights expert on climate change, who took up the new post last year. “In 2020 alone, 30.7 million people were displaced from their homes due to weather-related events. Droughts…
“We’ve already seen over 560,000 people crossing into neighbouring countries…[and] nearly two million people displaced internally,” said Raouf Mazou, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, following a visit to Sudan. Since conflict erupted there on 15 April when rival militaries clashed, more than half a million people have reached neighbouring countries in a bid to escape…
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement pool is going to be opened today or tomorrow. Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a conversation with journalists said that the two major parties of the ruling coalition (PDM) People’s Party and Muslim League (N) are gathered in Dubai…
In 2017, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu went to China and met with President Xi Jinping. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says that he has received an invitation to visit China. In making the announcement today, Netanyahu emphasized that the United States is Israel’s main ally. According to the statement issued by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office, US…
After the Balochistan High Court, the High Courts of Lahore and Peshawar also ordered to stop the elections of Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The High Courts of Lahore and Peshawar have issued notices to the Federal Government, PCB Election Commissioner and other parties and sought their response. The Peshawar High Court has adjourned the…
File photo Latif Khosa has said that there is a report of the International Court of Justice on the proceedings of military courts. Speaking to the media outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Aitzaz Ahsan’s lawyer Latif Khosa said that the Attorney General has told the Supreme Court that the trial in the military courts…
Photo courtesy of Arab Media The Saudi Ministry of Health has said that the health status of the Hajj pilgrims is satisfactory and they do not have any symptoms of an epidemic or a threat to public health. Speaking at a press conference, the spokesperson of the Saudi Ministry of Health, Dr. Muhammad Al-Abd Al-Ali,…
